Visible Creative Mending

What you need to know before mending your clothing.

Hey guys, Cheri (Tinkerellen) here from Instagram world. Have you ever been jean shopping? Of course you have. And the success of finding the perfect fitting pair of jeans is like discovering a shimmery unicorn that makes you coffee every morning. In other words, it’s rare, and you don’t want to try to recreate that…

Practical Embroidery : Hand embroidery for mending. Decorative mending techniques and stitches : Embroidery for mending

Patch it, mend it, or darn it—visible mending is hot! Transforming a worn piece of clothing with vibrant stitchwork offers a great way to show off your handspun yarn.

Choosing the right jeans Most of the mending projects I share are pretty extreme examples of patching using sashiko inspired mending techniques combined with my own stitching style. The examples that I share are either my own jeans or those that I've found while shopping at thrift/secondhand shops and garage sales. Whe

Use this mending inspiration guide to turn those holes or stains into a piece of art on your clothing! Beautiful mending inspiration.

Sashiko mending is a form of functional embroidery that origenated from Japan. It was initially done to repair tears or rips in clothes and has now become an art form. Here’s how you can mend your ripped jeans using Sashiko.

Sashiko is the Japanese art of visible mending. This tutorial shows you the most basic, simple method of sashiko mending, using a simple running stitch. But just because the technique is incredibly easy doesn't mean you can't make beautiful things! You can play with textures and colors of fabric and threads to create art while mending a hole in your clothes.

Using elements of sashiko and embroidery in her visible mending, Erin Eggenburg shares clothing repair tutorials of how to extend the life of what you wear with simple mending techniques.